{"id":1311,"date":"2015-08-10T12:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2015-08-10T12:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:02:31","slug":"language-of-bindings-thesaurus-a-new-bookbinding-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/language-of-bindings-thesaurus-a-new-bookbinding-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Language of Bindings Thesaurus: a new bookbinding reference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new site Language of Bindings<\/a>\u00a0is an intriguing references for bookbinders. It was conceived and published by Ligatus. As\u00a0Nicholas Pickwoad explained in a post to the Book-Arts-L listserv, Ligatus is:<\/p>\n

…\u00a0a research centre of the University of the Arts London with projects\u00a0in libraries and archives and with a particular interest in historic\u00a0bookbinding.<\/p>\n

The Language of Binding thesaurus is the result of our long experience with historic bookbindings, but has been greatly assisted by\u00a0contributions from an international group of bookbinding experts and book\u00a0conservators. This work was made possible by a Networking Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK.<\/p>\n

The aim of the thesaurus is to present a consistent vocabulary for the use of\u00a0all those who work with early bindings, built wherever possible on existing\u00a0resources, but adapted for use in an on-line hierarchical environment that will\u00a0allow terms that are not known to a user to be found. It is constructed around\u00a0concepts (such as different bookbinding components, features, materials or\u00a0techniques) that can be expressed by a number of language terms (labels). The\u00a0thesaurus allows one\u00a0concept to have more than one label, which allows the same concept to be\u00a0searched for by the different terms that may have been used historically to describe it. It will also allow the concepts to be expressed in different languages.<\/p>\n

The Language of Binding thesaurus can be used as a reference online resource that can be searched by keyword or alphabetically. The concepts contained in the thesaurus are, however, also arranged hierarchically, based on a class\/sub-class relationship, which allows concepts to be retrieved by navigating down the hierarchies even if their label (the term) is not known.<\/p>\n

It is hoped that the thesaurus will enable all those who work with books in early bindings to arrive at more consistent descriptions of those bindings. By being based primarily on single concepts, it has tried to avoid the more familiar but sometimes frustratingly imprecise language that has often been used in the past. This means that some of these familiar terms will not be found as labels, though they may be referred to in the scope notes that define and describe the concepts (and can therefore be found by a simple keyword search).<\/p>\n

At the moment, the thesaurus contains labels primarily in English, but work on its translation has already started, and plans for the addition of illustrations are also underway. The thesaurus can, in addition, be used as a look-up service for software applications that need to populate schema fields from thesauri.<\/p>\n

An accompanying volume, Coming to Terms: guidelines for the description of historical bindings, which is based on the terms in the thesaurus, is to be published in the autumn.<\/p>\n

The success of the thesaurus will to a large extent depend on contributions made to it by its users, either to add more concepts, refine existing scope notes or correct mistakes. Such contributions to the thesaurus will be welcomed, and can
\nbe made online following a registration process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new site Language of Bindings\u00a0is an intriguing references for bookbinders. It was conceived and published by Ligatus. As\u00a0Nicholas Pickwoad explained in a post to the Book-Arts-L listserv, Ligatus is: …\u00a0a research centre of the University of the Arts London with projects\u00a0in libraries and archives and with a particular interest in historic\u00a0bookbinding. The Language of … <\/p>\n

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